It is difficult – if not impossible – to limit a list of things to do in Italy to 100, and even more difficult to put them in order of descending significance or entertainment value: home to Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, with islands as diverse as dour Sicily and African-influenced Pantelleria and cultures as far apart as Renaissance Venice and the prehistoric Trulli in Alberobello, Italy is a vibrant and colorful hotch-potch, a land of stark and passionately defended contrasts.

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9. Cinque Terre (La Spezia)

“Cinque Terre” – quite literally “five places” – is the name given to five villages on the Ligurian coast of northwest Italy – Vernazza, Corniglia, Monterosso al Mare, Riomaggiore and Manarola. Owing to their picturesque aspect between cliffs and sea and the fact that they can be easily accessed by rail or boat, but only under extreme difficulty by road, they are immensely popular with tourists. This explains in part why they were designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

All five villages are directly accessible by train from Genoa, Pisa or Rome and ferries run from Genoa, Portofino and Portovenere from April to September. The village of “La Spezia” (78 km southeast from Genoa) is only 7 minutes from Riomaggiore by train.

10. Vatican City (Rome)

The Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state worldwide, ruled by the pope and with all major administrative and political positions occupied by members of the Catholic clergy. It subsists entirely on donations from Catholics worldwide, the sale of stamps, books and other mementoes and entrance fees to its museums and sacred architectural spaces. Its historical roots go back to St. Peter, who was supposedly the first Pope to live there (30 AD); it was given its political independence in 1929 under the Lateran Treaty.

Located across the Tiber river (Fiume Tevere) from central Rome, the Vatican City can be accessed from Rome`s Termini railway station in around 40 minutes by bus (exit Gregorio Vii, thereafter 11 minutes on foot).

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